Photoplay (Jan - Jun 1926)

We suspect Gloria Swansori of a conspiracy with the hairdressers. This is her newest bob. The effect is obtained by cutting the top shorter than the rest and curling it over in a soft wave Gloria Swanson discovered beautiful Arlette Marchal (above) in France and cast her for the Queen in "Madame Sans Gene." Gloria had Paramount bring her over. Brave gal — she imports her own competition forth between Hollywood and New York to pursue his nefarious career, brings this one from Hollywood : First Young Thing: "I would love to get in pictures." Second Older Thing: "A lot of them have!" OLD Dame Rumor has been working overtime lately. Her latest effort — that of a separation between Jack Dempsey and Estelle Taylor — was given a knockout blow when the champ returned from his Eastern trip and the two flew into each other's arms. And this, too, in spite of the fact that there are some who think Jack has plenty of grounds for leaving Estelle. You see it was like this. While Jack was away his little actress wife got lonely and so amused herself by painting a portrait of her Tighter husband. .Vow Estelle is a capable little actress, but no one ever told her she was an artist— I mean the brush and oil kind — and what she did to Jack — in the picture — well, I won't even try to tell you. Some who have seen the portrait say — well, never mind. But just to show you how far apart this happy couple is, Jack took Estelle in his arms again when he saw the picture and said — "WONDERFUL." Ain't love grand? NUDITY — "pour le sport," as Michael Alien is so fond of saying — will not cause the barring of any motion pictures in Germany, the State Hoard of Censorship ruled recently. The picture which started the controversy is a propaganda film for the naked culture movement that is breaking the hearts of German tailors, and gaining great popularity in Germany, Russia and Austria. h2 A private showing of the film was arranged for President von Hindenburg. He put the official Prussian stamp upon it and opened it to the public. Old thrillers and melodramas are banned in Prussia, but nudity — never. "W"OU just cannot keep Michael ■* Arlen out of print. Charlie Chaplin was showing him around Hollywood shortly after the author's arrival. They were just leaving a studio when a huge truck, loaded with rock, crashed into the rear of Chaplin's Rolls-Royce, demolishing it. In an instant a crowd gathered. "Any casualties, Mr. Chaplin?" queried a solicitous onlooker. "None," replied Charlie, "except to our itinerary. And I guess we can save that with a taxicab." ANNA 0. NILSSON got her divorce from young Gunnerson, the business man she married a few years ago. And that is the end of another romance, and everybody is sorry. Anna Q, — whom everybody loves — is one of those actresses with a thoroughly domestic disposition. I have met them on the New York stage — the kind that save up and hope some day to have a duck farm down on Long Island She loved the little home she and her husband built on their little ranch about twenty miles from Hollywood. It was her great delight to spend her time there, being a real housewife. Anna Q. is a good cook, too. Hut — the strange part of it is. that apparently that was just what ruined her marriage. A man who marries a beautiful and high-powered actress doesn't always want her to settle down and be domestic. A/f ARSHALL NEILAN proved himself a * Ylg00d picker when he discovered little Sally O'Neil and gave her the featured role in his latest picture, "Mike." Rut why, oh why, did he change her delightful name of Chotsey Noonan, to Sally O'Xeil? Incidentally, Chotsey — I mean Sally — atmosphered around Mack Sennett's lot for a couple of months, but the well-known discoverer of feminine beauty didn't, or couldn't, see her. /^AN you imagine Aileen Pringle, ^the striking, the gorgeous, ever an ugly duckling? Well, she was — the prize Ugly Duckling of the little town of Newcastle, California, which never tires of talking of the wonderful transformation of the little girl who grew up in Newcastle. I had it from a friend with whom I went to college. He dropped in for a chat one day — visiting Hollywood from a northern city — and the first question he asked was if I knew Aileen Pringle. "You know, Cal," says he, "I knew her when she was just a little kid with pigtails down her back. And plain, why we didn't think she had one redeeming feature then. And now just look at her." DOUGLAS MACLEAN and his wife recently went to New York via the Panama Canal, thinking that the delightful boat trip would give them a pleasant rest. "And it did," says Douglas. " Furthermore. if I was a betting man I could easily make my expenses off the trip on the information I got. I haven't found anvbodv vet in New York or